Derby Talk

Derby Talk is a forum for Pinewood Derby, Awana Grand Prix, Kub Kar Rally, Shape N Race Derby, Space Derby, Raingutter Regatta and other similar races where a child and an adult work together to create a race vehicle and a lot of fun and memories

*5 J's* wrote:Our two lane track uses a timer interfaced GPRM for scheduling, but I am looking for a backup spreadsheet in the event the timer fails during the race.

When using GPRM, we do recommend that you print out the scoresheet report and use that to manually record each heat (finish order at a minimum). If there is some issue with the computer, you can continue the race and tabulate the results off of that.

If it is just an issue of timer communications, then you can switch to Points scoring, if scoring by Time, and then manually enter the finish order for each heat into GPRM. GPRM keeps track of points as well as times, even when scoring by time. That way you can let GPRM do all the number crunching for you.